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APRIL 5, 2021 – The New York Public Library s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers has selected its 23rd class of Fellows: 15 talented academics, literary artists, and independent scholars. The Fellows were selected from a pool of 506 applicants from 48 countries. The class of 2021 includes:
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Poet Michael Prior;
Independent scholars Rich Benjamin, Lewis Hyde, and Avi Steinberg. The past year has come with astounding challenges. In this renewed state of recovery and careful reconnection, I am grateful to be welcoming our new class of Fellows and the continuation of over 20 years of scholarship, collaboration, and the creation of original work, said
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A judge ruled that ICE and NARA must maintain records of detainee deaths and sexual assault.
Three watchdog groups sued NARA after it approved ICE s plan to destroy records.
The organizations won arguing that records had a historical value for research.
A federal judge on Friday ruled that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the National Archives and Records Administration must preserve records relating to sexual assault, abuse, and detainee deaths because of their research value.
The legal publication Law & Crime first reported the court s ruling Friday. The ruling, from the Obama-appointed Judge Amit P. Mehta, offered his analysis of the Federal Records Act.
Daily Beast, and
Foreign Affairs, among other publications. He is a past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations and the Society of American Historians.
Much of his research for volume two of
JFK is completed, Professor Logevall said, but he has more work to do and is eager for the archives to reopen for researchers.
Professor Logevall generously discussed his work by telephone from his home near Harvard University during a snow storm. He remarked that the 15 inches of new snow reminded him of his native Sweden.